To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.

I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.